Dublin 1940.
An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days
later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on
Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are
found in their shuttered, burned-out villa.
Dispatched from Special Branch to investigate, Detective Inspector
Stefan Gillespie soon finds himself caught in a web of Irish, British
and German Intelligence - all playing against each other, all watching
each other, and all plagued by rogue operators they can't quite control,
as the certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England.
And then, Stephen is sent to Berlin on a sensitive mission. His journey
home becomes a dangerous pursuit in which no one can be trusted and the
information he carries puts his life on the line.